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Storyline

Amity Island is growing, making corporate connections with
prestigious companies like Environplus to improve the Island's
economy. Unfortunately the increased population around the Island
and recent industrial activity has also attracted one of Earth's
most fearsome creatures: a great white shark. When the
Environplus CEO's son falls prey to the shark's deadly attacks, the
CEO hires renowned shark hunter Cruz Ruddock to track and kill it.
Meanwhile, Marine Biologist Michael Brody tries to capture the
shark for research. Can Ruddock and Brody stop the shark from
causing havoc and killing more people before the 4th of July
celebration?

Reception

Jaws Unleashed received a mixed to poor critical
reaction. Most complaints against the game center around the game's
glitches and freezing up and its camera problems. One of the most
positive reviews came from IGN,
which rewarded the game with a score of 7.4 out of 10 while calling
it "Grand Shark Auto". Some other reviews
however were far more harsh such as GameSpot who gave the game a rating of a 3.8
out of 10, while Official
Playstation Magazine gave it a 1.5 out of 5. Game Rankings's aggregate scores for
Jaws Unleashed were 54% for the PS2 version and 53% for
the Xbox version. Game Informer magazine gave the game a
sub-par 4.75, saying, "This game reaches a new level of video game
absurdity, going well out of its way to make a complete mockery of
the license it's based on." As the game was released on PC, players
experienced a better overall performance, handling, and fewer
problems during game play were reported, thus indicating the later
released PC version to be better than the
console versions, with an average score of 60%. The same has been
thought to be true in the PAL (Europe) version as indicated by
higher reviews scores (such as a 7/10 from OPN UK). Despite this,
the game was a commercial success, selling over 250,000 copies on
Xbox alone, therefore earning it Gamespot's "Worst Game Everyone
Played of 2006" award. [4]